And the unending witch hunt continues…
Special Counsel Jack Smith is reported to have subpoenaed Former Vice President Mike Pence. He wants documents and testimony related to the January 6 incident. He also wants Pence to testify. Pence may be able to invoke executive privilege.
Smith, who was also tasked by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in November to investigate the classified documents seized in an FBI raid from Mar-a-Lago and the effort to overturn the 2020 election.
It is unclear what information Smith is seeking from Pence, but the subpoena reportedly came as a result of months of negotiations between Pence’s team and the special counsel.
Let’s be clear. Pence doesn’t have anything to worry about here. There is no indication he did anything wrong as far as the events of January 6 go. Pence was a prime target of the rioters on Capitol Hill that day. Shouts of “Hang Mike Pence” were heard.
In fact, Pence had to take his wife and daughter and go with security to a safe location. Nonetheless, the special counsel wants what he wants. Pence’s advisors previously said he was not interested in testifying before the January 6 committee. Pence is reported to have told people privately that he has concerns about testifying against Trump.
Smith may want Pence to testify publicly about what happened on January 6. There were no witnesses to the one-on-one conversations he had with Trump.
Pence throws Trump’s lawyers under the bus in defense of the former president. He said that Trump got bad legal advice. He even slams Rudy Giuliani though he doesn’t name names.
In an interview with NBC last year, Pence said, ‘I don’t know if it is criminal to listen to bad advice from lawyers.
‘The truth is, what the president was repeating is what he was hearing from that gaggle of attorneys around him,’ he continued, in an apparent swipe at Trump’s one-time personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
‘Presidents, just like all of us that have served in public life, you have to rely on your team, you have to rely on the credibility of the people around you.
‘So as time goes on, I hope we can move beyond this, beyond that prospect. And this is really a time when our country ought to be healing.’
Federal prosecutors claim that Pence was a central figure in Trump’s efforts to stay in power. Pence’s role on Capitol Hill that day was largely ceremonial. He oversaw the certification of the election. Trump was under the impression that Pence could reject the results of the 2020 election and send them back to the states. His lawyers were encouraging that thought.
Smith’s investigation has kept a relatively low profile compared to the previous special counsel investigation into Trump, that of Robert Mueller. Smith did make headlines in early December last year after sending a bevy of subpoenas to election officials in battleground states seeking communications between them and the Trump team.
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Sources: WesternJournal, APnews, ABC News
pence is a Deep State scumbag.
I don’t know if trump new that ahead of him BEING TOLD to make pence is VP or he just didn’t care because trump is a Trojan Horse.